Fully 35% ‘admits’ it does not believe in god.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Florida Medical Professors Resist Chiropractic School
And create parody map with Bigfoot Institute, Tarot Studies and similar.
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Irfan Khawaja on the Madrasacracy in Pakistan
Why haven’t US journalists looked into reports of sex abuse in madrasas?
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German MEPs Demonstrate Against Stoning
Many Iranian exiles joined demonstration outside Iranian embassy in Berlin.
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Hajieh Esmailvand Stoning on Hold?
That was the report on December 24…
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Bad Faith Words
And other ways to hide nonsense or vacuity.
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Laurie Taylor on Dictionary of FN
Too many cheap shots, but some funny bits too. (Cheap? Moi?)
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Why Thai Officials Did Not Warn of Tsunami
High tourist season, hotels full, no way to tell direction of waves.
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Philip Stott on the Disaster
Geology and poverty meet on Asian coasts; failing governments don’t do the necessary.
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Julian Baggini Does a Mr Manners
Be considerate, be quiet, close mouth when chewing, pipe down on mobile.
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Oh But Indeed There is a Right to Offend
Warped version of ‘tolerance’ surrounds belief with hands-off halo of sanctity.
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The Guardian on Susan Sontag
‘She had a deeply solitary and precocious childhood.’
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Rushdie Disgusted Ministers Did Nothing
‘Bookshops and theatres are full of things that would upset an interest group.’
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Gurharpal Singh on the Real Losers from Behzti
This is a multiculturalism which promotes religion and stifles dissent.
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NY Times Tries to Be Scott McLemee, Fails
Very lame MLA-tease, falls flat.
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Susan Sontag 1933-2004
The BBC.
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Susan Sontag in the Times
Stanley Aronowitz called her ‘the critic as star’; Sontag was ambivalent about this status.
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Sontag in the New York Times
Arthur Danto: ‘she dealt as a literary and philosophical intellectual with the deep problems of human life in our times.’
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NY Times Retrospective on Sontag
Links to reviews, interviews, profiles.
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Physics Envy, Biology Envy, Quantum Flapdoodle
Cartesian dreams fade in the face of the complexities of biology.